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I will be doing 2 scopes a month with some fun projects for planner lovers, journalers, listers, Die Cutters and anyone who loves paper crafting in general!

:) Thank You!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Tonight's class will feature Ady Almanza's Brand New Dollie Coloring Book! What an amazing book filled with beauties for you to color and use on your projects! And what a deal it is too! 35 images for $25.00 ! That is like $.71 per image and you keep the images forever as it arrives to you via your email! You can copy the pages and print them over and over again! Resize them, insert them into your scrapbook layouts, 3D projects...so many things!

I will be making a smaller version of this in class this evening on Ustream! (Using different colors of course!)

And here are a few of the products I used on this beautiful journal cover in case you would like to purchase them!!!!

Here are the Pens I showed at my class! They areavailable in these amazing packs of 4 BRILLANT Colors that are AMAZINGLY BLENDABLE! You can make thin or thick lines based on how you hold your brush!Pick your set of 4 for $14.99 each Ships FREE!

Reds Yellows

Neutrals

Greens Blues

Pitt Pen Color Options

Derwent Ink Tense Pencils are as versatile aswatercolor pencils, but have a firmer texture that allows them to perform with a brillant intense "INKTENSE" look. The colors are strong and vibrant and work beautifully on their own or can be mixed together to create different tones. You can use them dry or wet. (Once dry the color is permanent.12 Pack $ 35.99 Ships Free!Pencils are also available in 24 and 36 count for more color choices! (Please leave a comment if you are interested in pricing for those!)

Pigmented INDIA INK! Acid Free, smudge proof and waterproof when DRY. But when you add water too it you can SMUDGE and BLEND it for beautiful color and variated ink color! Easily controlled like a marker! Store Horizontally.$7.99 per pen Ships Free!

This image is just one of the AMAZING dolls you will find in this coloring book! I will be doing several art journal pages using Ady's dolls from this coloring book and I encourage you to purchase your own E Book at the above link! Please let Ady know that I sent you when you purchase your Doll Dreams Coloring Book!

I used Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils on this Doll along with a Black Sharpie Paint Pen and this is what I got:

Isn't she BEAUTIFUL! Fun and easy to do! (I will be showing you how to do this at this Thursdays class!)

Just wanted to share her quickly...I will be putting her on another page and adding some journaling along with an easy background as well!

Join me Thursday, Dec. 27th for some fun with coloring these BEAUTIFUL Dollies of Ady's!

Friday, December 21, 2012

I hope you have had a chance to view my You Tube Video in regards to the new Art Journaling Classes I will be doing once a month using Ady Almanza's BEAUTIFUL E-BOOK, Coloring Book Issue #1. If not here is the link:

Ady is a very talented artist who designs all of her own BEAUTIFUL "BIG EYED DOLLS". Because she knows that the rest of us LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her dolls and not all of us can draw as wonderfully as she can, she has designed an E-Book, a coloring book that you can download with 35, yes I said 35, GORGEOUS Dolls that you can purchase and then download to your computer and color over and over again! (I will be using her BEAUTIFUL Dolls in an Art Journal that I will be teaching once a month! There are MANY uses for these dolls once you have colored them! You can use them in your own Art Journal, Handmade Cards, Altered Notebooks, Scrapbooking Layouts, and they are perfect to share with the young aspiring artist in your family as wel just to color!

The coloring book can be purchased here: http://dolldreams.ning.com/The book can be purchased for a real bargain right now for $25.00! That is approximately $ .71 per image! You can not purchase any images of this quality anywhere else, trust me I have looked! Ady's images are GORGEOUS and she even shows you several of them on her site that she has colored as well!If you do purchase Ady's coloring book, and I STRONGLY urge you to do so if you LOVE to color like I do, please let her know in the comment section that I sent you!Now, IF you need some supplies, I am going to offer the following marker sets to you. I am offering the Copic Markers for $ 15.99 for a set of three! Awesome Price! (Copic marker prices are going up in January so I will have to adjust my price as well, so be sure and get what you like now! These are the combinations that I will be using, (Now there are hundreds of combinations you can use, these are just my suggestions and some of what Ady has shared with me that she uses herself).The first image I will be working with is a large image of a BEAUTIFUL DOLL, just her face, hair and upper body needs to be colored. Some of the things I will be using in my class that you can purchase:Specialty Pen Set:

Gel Sticks Kit:1 6 Pack of BEAUTIFUL Metallic Colored Gel Sticks and1 12 Pack of Regular Gel Sticks with paint Brush Included! Gel Sticks are unbelievably smooth and glide onto paper. They are water soluble and can have a watercolor effect when water is applied.

Additionally you can purchase a pack of XPress Blendable Copic Paper (25 sheets) along with a Copic Multi Liner and a White Signo Uniball Pen (used for highlighting) at a 10% discount here on my blog for $26.99! And I am shipping this pack FREE with a purchase of any marker set shown above!I hope you will join me in creating an Art Journal and other projects using Ady's Beautiful Images from her Coloring Book! It is sure to be a lot of fun!Keep Coloring!:) Christine

Thursday, December 20, 2012

For all of you WONDERFUL ladies that joined the Altered Items swap....I am missing 2 boxes still! I will touch base with those two people and see what is going on with them and get bak to you all. I have not opened any boxes because I wanted to wait until I had them all so that I do not have all of this laying around on my table for DAYSSSS! LOL! I am so excited to open them up though! Please be patient, goodies are coming and I am sure they will be worth the wait!I will keep you updated!!In the meantime here is another canvas I made using my items! It is of course Mermaid themed! I still love my Angel Canvas more! The painting is the hard part for me but I will NOT give up! Practice, Practice, Practice!

About Me

Hi! I am a wife and mother to 3 wonderful boys, and have been married for 30years. I enjoy most all paper crafts. The planning craze has got me addicted as well as the Gorjuss Girls from Santoro!
I also like to bead and do a little bit of crocheting as well!
My blog is dedicated to sharing techniques and products. Projects will include die cutting, rubber stamping, journaling, planning projects, altered products and mixed media. I hope you'll visit often and are inspired by my projects. I am a simple, easy going and friendly person who loves to play with paper, paints, die cut machines, and a hot glue gun!
I hope you will look me up on facebook and join my Gorjuss Girl group there as well:
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I invite you to stop in and join us!
In the meantime...Keep Creating!
:) Christine